Sex offender

criminal come across. However; when it comes to criminals like drug dealers and pedophiles ( sex offenders) their sentencing are different and very absurd. In the state of South Carolina, drug dealer should not serve long sentences than Pedophiles (sex offenders)? Due to the numerous crimes like the pedophiles tends to get off easily with two years in jail, house arrest and register on the sex offender list. While the dealers sit in the cell for over 10 years with 3 years with no. In the state…

multi-faceted consequences for neighborhoods where sex offenders reside. Sex offender legislation set out to register and control the movement of convicted sex offenders. This principle of public protection resulted in the establishment of the sex offender registry, community notification, and residency restrictions laws. However, research has suggested that legislation has not worked as intended. Instead, legislative attempts to segregate sex offenders from vulnerable victims have created…

Sex Offender Registration Laws Sex laws can be traced back as far as the early 1800's. Many of these laws were created for religious reasons, a lot from religions like Christianity. These laws had varying forms of punishments for these crimes, the lowest punishment being a fine and the most extreme would be death. During the 1930's J. Edgar Hoover had made sex crimes a huge focus point in the United States. Also during this time they started looking for methods to help treat and reform…

Is Deviance Okay Understanding the meaning of the word “deviance” allows me an opportunity to put the word into a different light. Like most people when I hear the word deviance I immediately associate this with something of negative value and or negative behavior. We never once take into account that we ourselves can be view and labeled as deviant. We seem to believe because we follow the social norms that society has implemented, we are not “deviant”. Needless to say it, but we all engage…

Criminal profiling or offender profiling is a sequence of investigative techniques utilized to establish characteristics of unknown criminal. Through criminal profiling, a profiler relates the information from the crime scene to known personality and behaviors attributes resultant from past crimes of other offenders who showed similar traits. The aim of doing this is to attempt to solve the crime and catch the criminal. The FBI has never demonstrated beyond reproach that this method is reliable…

Criminal Profiling White Paper Ali Wiethe University of Dayton  According to Kocsis (2010), criminal profiling is defined as “A forensic technique which seeks to provide investigative agencies with specific information which will help focus attention to individuals with personality traits that parallel traits of other perpetrators who have committed similar other offenses.” Through this definition, it is believed that profiling will help law enforcement officers pursue and interview suspects,…

Their crimes are planned, well thought out, and staged to prevent investigators from finding evidence. Disorganized offenders on the other hand are of below-average intelligence, socially inadequate, with an anxious mood during the crime, which usually leads to a messy crime scene with lots of evidence such as blood or fingerprints. These terms are beneficial to profiling…

Heritage dictionary a serial killer is " A person who attacks and kills victims one by one in a series of incidents." Often, people don't take a deep look into what a serial killer is or does, and why America is struggling with so many of these offenders. If people looked at types of serial killers, their motives and their victims everyone could create shared meaning of the exact definition of a serial killer. The FBI's "Crime Classification Manual" breaks serial killers into two groups.…

interview, he explained somehing “came over” that simply made him kill without thinking (Cater, 1995) Wooing phase phase is the victim is conned into the killer’s trap. Arthur Shawcross was skilled in having conversation with the prosititues about buying sex. Eventually, he led his victims to the Genesee River and murdered them. Moreover, he tricked the prostitutes thinking it was a safe date because he was a regular customer. Totem phase is the reliving of the crime through souvenirs in order…

(MO) are the two tools used by Forensic psychology to identify unknown offenders who commit violent crimes. Signature behavior is an action by an offender that is not necessary to complete their crime. They are images and reproduction of the individual’s lifestyle, personality and evolving practice of the offender. These actions fulfils their emotional and psychological desires when they commit criminal behaviors. All offenders have a Modus Operandi (MO) consisting of techniques, habits,…